Chapter 33
CHAPTER 33 They had been too late. Not just by an hour, or a day. No, judging by the state of the bodies in the leaf-strewn clearing twenty miles south, the week they had been delayed had cost the Eyllwe war band everything. Morath had left the warriors where they lay, a few red-caped Crochans—the […]
Chapter no 37
Brandon and Richard walked hand in hand down empty Manhattan streets. They were both dazed, and neither of them had spoken for blocks. Soon they came to a small city park with lush green trees and red and yellow flowers. Richard found someone who let him borrow a cell phone, and he stepped aside to […]
Chapter 32
CHAPTER 32 Dorian had brown eyes for three days before he figured out how to change them back to blue. Asterin and Vesta teased him about it mercilessly as they’d traveled down through the spine of the Fangs, dramatically bemoaning the absence of his pretty bluebell eyes, and had sighed to the heavens when the […]
Chapter no 36
Reshmina blinked awake in the bright sunshine. She lay on the ground by the river, near the fields with their corn and barley and rice that had yet to be harvested. Her ears rang and her body ached, but she was alive. So was her mother, who was sitting by her side. Her mother wrapped […]
Chapter 31
CHAPTER 31 They had taken her scars. Maeve had taken them all away. It told Rowan enough about what had been done. When he’d seen her back, the smooth skin where the scars of Endovier and the scars from Cairn’s whipping should have been, he’d suspected. But kneeling, burning in nothing but her skin … […]
Chapter no 35
Brandon stood and stared. The South Tower was gone. Like some sort of awful magician’s trick, it had just disappeared. Disappeared and been replaced by a mountain of concrete and twisted metal, shrouded in a cloud of dust and smoke. That was what must have knocked them all down in the basement, Brandon realized. What […]
Chapter 30
CHAPTER 30 The clash of conflict echoed across the land, even from miles away. Deep in the rough hills of an ancient forest, Elide had waited for hours. First shivering in the dark, then watching the sky bleed to gray, then at last blue. And with that final transition, the clamor had started. She’d alternated […]
Chapter no 34
Reshmina wriggled through the hole in the cave wall and fell clumsily to the floor of another room. She paused for a long moment, scared to move. She had no idea what was in this hidden chamber, but she had to see if it led to some way out. Her mother handed the flashlight to […]
Chapter 29
CHAPTER 29 With the camp in outright chaos, it was far easier to slip in. Rowan’s power blasted to the western edge, shattering tent and bone. Any soldiers lingering between the camp’s eastern edge and the center ran toward it. Clearing the way. Right to the tent he’d been so close to reaching when Lorcan’s […]
Chapter no 33
Brandon followed the sound of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” through the darkness and found Richard trapped under part of a wall. “Help me get him out of here!” Brandon cried. Together, Brandon, Pratik, and Gayle were able to lift the layers of drywall high enough for Richard to crawl out. When Richard […]